Title of Bill AN ACT to amend the environmental
conservation law, in relation to requiring certain persons hunting for big game
to wear fluorescent orange outer garments

SUMMARY
OF SPECIFIC PROVISIONS:Each person who hunts
big game with a rifle, shotgun, pistol or revolver shall wear a minimum of four
hundred square inches of solid or patterned fluorescent orange material above
the waist and/or a hat or cap of such material. The material shall be worn so
it is visible at all times in a three hundred sixty degree arc

Reasons for Opposing

8According to several
hunter safety coordinators for 40 other states, there has been no dramatic
overall decrease in hunting accidents since the regulations were implemented,
while there is no evidence of a decline in big game harvests.

8To satisfy the concerns
of safety then everyone who is afield should be required to wear the blazed
orange.

8In the matter of square
inches as a requirement, this type of regulation is difficult to enforce and
for some small framed individuals could create a problem of being able to meet
specified square inches.

8Clothing color should
never take the place of good sound education and common sense while hunting.
This education reinforces the concepts of each shooter knowing their target and
what is beyond before taking a shot.